{"id":343146,"date":"2026-03-17T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/343146\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:58:10","slug":"will-the-strait-of-hormuz-torpedo-trumps-war-podcast-us-israel-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/343146\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the strait of Hormuz torpedo Trump\u2019s war? \u2013 podcast | US-Israel war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water at the mouth of the Gulf, is the world\u2019s petrol pump, a geographical bottleneck through which 20% of the world\u2019s oil normally flows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since the US and Israel launched their war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>, however, Tehran has threatened to close the strait and cause mayhem. \u201cThey\u2019ve not formally, officially shut it down, but they have said that they will set ablaze any tanker that tries to move through. For any shipping owner, for any insurer, that is as good as closed,\u201d explains the Guardian\u2019s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Nosheen Iqbal hears about the knock-on effect on the global economy and everyday lives. \u201cIf you think about your day-to-day life, the goods that you consume, the services that you use, they all rely on energy at some point. So when the cost goes up, everything that you consume or use will become more costly too,\u201d Jillian says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Will the economic turbulence make the US president think again about the war? And how long can Iran keep it up? \u201cDonald Trump wouldn\u2019t want to admit defeat,\u201d says Jillian, but \u201cI see Iran as holding a lot of the cards in this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tankers in the Gulf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1388.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.19236311239194\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water at the mouth of the Gulf, is the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-343146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}